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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities
and Assets of the Bank of New South Wales,
in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 31st
December, 1873.

LIABILITIES.
Notes in Circulation ... ... ... £ 104,849 17 6
Bills in Circulation ... ... ... 564 8 10
Balances due to other Banks ... ... 16,127 19 10
Government Deposits ... ... ... ...
Other Deposits—
Not bearing Interest ... ... ... 297,756 13 1
Bearing Interest ... ... ... 265,624 10 6
Total average Liabilities ... ... ... £684,923 9 9

ASSETS.
Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined
Metal ... ... ... ... ... ... £ 274,820 18 1
Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars ... 78,737 2 3
Notes and Bills of other Banks ... ... 1,754 5 11
Balances due from other Banks ... ... 13,894 1 6
Landed Property ... ... ... ... 22,196 14 7
Amount of all other Securities—

1. Notes and Bills Discounted ... 444,667 18 2
2. Colonial Government Securities ...
3. Other Funded Securities ...
4. Debts due to Bank (exclusive of Debts
   abandoned as bad) ... ... ... 506,364 2 0
5. Securities not included under the above
   heads ... ... ... ... 132,281 14 8
   Total average Assets ... ... ... £1,474,716 17 2

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter
ended 31st December, 1873, £1,000,000.
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders, 15 per
cent. per annum.
Amount of last Dividend declared, £75,000.
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such
Dividend, £336,556 16s. 5d.
Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of January, 1874.

EDWD. MILLER, Manager.
A. WARBURTON, p. Accountant.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities
and Assets of the National Bank of New Zea-
land, Limited, within the Colony, during the Quarter
ended 29th December, 1873.

LIABILITIES.
Notes in Circulation ... ... ... £ 51,687 12 3
Bills in Circulation ... ... ... 47,793 4 11
Balances due to other Banks ... ... 42,660 11 4
Government Deposits ... ... ... ...
Other Deposits—
Not bearing Interest ... ... ... 353,359 11 6
Bearing Interest ... ... ... 204,883 12 3
Total average Liabilities ... ... ... £700,384 12 3

ASSETS.
Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined
Metal ... ... ... ... ... ... £ 198,594 1 0
Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars ... 26,416 16 1
Notes and Bills of other Banks ... ... 17,029 5 9
Balances due from other Banks ... ... 18,661 16 8
Landed Property ... ... ... ... 23,003 18 5
Amount of all other Securities—

1. Notes and Bills Discounted ... 317,653 15 9
2. Colonial Government Securities ...
3. Other Funded Securities ...
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
   Debts abandoned as bad) ... ... 377,747 10 8
5. Securities not included under the above
   heads ... ... ... ... 16,259 19 0
   Total average Assets ... ... ... £995,367 3 4

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at the close of the Quarter
ended 29th December, 1873, £300,000 10s.
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders, Nil.
Amount of the last Dividend declared, Nil.
Amount of the Reserved Profits, £1,102 5s. 9d.
Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of January,
1874.

ALEX. KERR, Manager.
W. KNOWLES, Accountant.

GENERAL Abstract showing the average amount
of the Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of
Australasia, within the Colony of New Zealand,
taken from the several Weekly Statements during
the Quarter from the 1st October to 31st December,
1873.

LIABILITIES.
Notes in Circulation ... ... ... £ 38,962 3 1
Bills in Circulation ... ... ... 3,236 9 7
Balances due to other Banks ... ...
Government Accounts... ... ... ...
Deposits—
Not bearing Interest ... ... ... 121,600 3 6
Bearing Interest. ... ... ... 71,074 5 1
Total amount of Liabilities ... ... ... £234,873 1 3

ASSETS.
Coined Gold and Silver and other coined
Metals ... ... ... ... ... ... £ 93,183 19 3
Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars ... 4,057 8 10
Landed Property ... ... ... ... 31,086 4 7
Notes and Bills of other Banks ... ... 233 2 1
Balances due from other Banks ... ...
Amount of all other Securities—

1. Notes and Bills Discounted ... 328,249 1 5
2. Colonial Government Securities
3. Other Funded Securities
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of
   Debts abandoned as bad) ... ... 146,019 15 3
5. Securities not included under the above
   heads ... ... ... ... 9,028 4 4
   Total amount of Assets ... ... ... £611,857 15 9

Amount of the Capital Stock paid up at this date, £1,200,000.
Rate of the last Dividend declared to the Shareholders, 10 per
cent. per annum.
Amount of the last Dividend declared, £60,000.
Amount of the Reserved Profits at the time of declaring such
Dividend, £330,908 10s. 7d.
Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of January, 1874.

THOS. BUCHANAN, Manager.
J. SAWERS, Accountant.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels of
land hereinafter described will be brought under
the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1870,"
unless caveat in the meantime be lodged forbidding
the same.

JOHN SMITH.—30 acres 3 roods and 35 perches,
northern part of Rural Section 5791, Lincoln
District. Also 10 acres 2 roods and 19 perches,
Rural Section 6878, said District. (Hanmer and
Harper, Solicitors.) 1231.

GEORGE HOLMES.—1306 acres, Rural Sections
1515, 4457, 4458, 4459, 4460, 4461, 4462, 10037,
10117, 11531, 11532, 11536, and 14209, Malvern and
Upper Christchurch Districts. (A. Thompson, Soli-
citor.) 1353.

JOSEPH MORT WHEELER.—4 acres 3 roods
19 perches, part of Rural Section 16, Christchurch
District, being part of Lots 13 and 14, Saint Martin's.
(John Lewis, Broker.) 1363.

CHARLES CLARK.—4099 acres 1 rood 24
perches, Rural Section 7539, north of the Waipara
District. Also 920 acres, Rural Sections 9880,
9881, 9882, 14131, 14132, 9926, 9927, 9928, 9925,
and 14215, Malvern District. (C. Clark, Broker.)
1364 and 1365.

LEONARD HARPER, as Attorney for Edmund
Theodore Doxat.—475 acres, Rural Sections 1460,
1472, 1473, and 1479, Christchurch District. (Han-
mer and Harper, Solicitors.) 1367.

HENRY HOOKHAM.—25 acres, Rural Section
2229, Mandeville District. 1370.

JOHN ALBERT YOUNG.—20 acres, Rural
Section 4929, Timaru District. (Perry and Perry,
Solicitors.) 1372.

ELIZABETH GREEN.—38 perches, Lot 400,
Rhodes Town, Timaru. (E. H. Tate, Broker.) 1374.